STACK 


iceo  01  Revising  Morals  and  Laws 

A  LECTURE 


DELIVERED    BY 


LADY    COOK 

(NEE    TENNESSEE    CLAFLIN). 

LONDON : 
CHRISTY,  &  LILLY,  LTD.,  113-117,  FARRINGDON  ROAD,  E.C 


THE  apogee  of  Lady  Cook  dates  from  May  6th,  1910,  when} 
at  the  Royal  Albert  Hall,  she  delivered  the  lecture,  the 
principal  portions  of  which  are  here  printed,  from  the  shorthand 
writer's  notes,  for  the  first  time.  In  the  previous  December 
this  pioneer  of  the  Women's  Cause  had  addressed  a  mass- 
meeting  organised  by  the  Suffragettes  in  the  same 
building.  There  were  several  other  speakers  on  that 
occasion,  but  May  6th  was  Lady  Cook's  own  day.  It  was  held 
to  be  impossible  that  one  solitary  woman,  no  matter  who  she 
m'ight  be,  would  be  able  to  attract  an  audience  of  upwards  of 
7,000,  to  the  vast  building  erected  forty  years  ago  as  a  memorial 
of  Queen  Victoria's  beloved  Consort,  Prince  Albert.  A  gloom 
was  hanging  over  London,  for,  as  the  day  wore  on,  the  reports 
of  King  Edward's  critical  condition  had  caused  a  widespread 
feeling  of  dismay.  Thousands  of  loyal  subjects  were  streaming 
into  the  Hall,  when,  between  7  and  8  o'clock,  the  news  from 
Buckingham  Palace  became  more  alarming.  By  that  time  it 
was  too  late  to  announce  a  postponement  of  the  lecture,  to  hear 
which  many  had  come  from  the  outlying  districts  of  the 
Metropolis.  In  the  preliminary  passages  of  her  address  Lady 
Cook  made  some  infinitely  touching  references  to  the  blow 
which  was  to  fall  upon  the  Empire  before  the  day  was  over,  and 
her  pathetic  words  were  received  with  the  deepest  sympathy 
and  heartfelt  grief.  At  the  close  of  the  lecture  the  National 
Anthem  was  sung,  and  the  vast  assemblage  left  the  Hall  hoping 
against  hope,  and  learning  of  the  dire  calamity  only  on  the 
following  morning. 

Many  wondrous  scenes  have  been  witnessed  in  the  Albert 
Hall  since  its  formal  inauguration  by  the  Queen  of  blessed 
memory  early  in  1871.  Some  of  the  greatest  artists  of  the  last 
century  have  charmed  us  within  its  walls.  There  have  been 
vast  political  gatherings,  Masonic  festivals,  and  charitable  fetes 
of  every  description  ;  but  the  picture  which  this  magnificent 
temple  of  the  Arts  and  Sciences  presented  to  the  spectator's 
gaze  on  this  May  evening  was  unique. 


THE   NEED  OF   REVISING 
MORALS    AND    LAWS 

A  LECTURE  DELIVERED  BY  LADY  COOK 
(NE'E  TENNESSEE  CLAFLIN)  AT  THE  ROYAL 
ALBERT  HALL,  LONDON,  ON  MAY  6,  1910 


UPWARDS  of  7,000  people  assembled  in  the  Royal  Albert  Hall 
on  the  evening  of  May  6th,   1910,  to  hear  Lady  Cook  (nee 
Tennessee  Claflin)  lecture  on  "  The  Need  of  Revising  Morals 
and  Laws."     The  Rev.    Hugh   Chapman,    Chaplain  of   the   Chapel 
Royal,  Savoy,  presided,  and,  after  a  brief  address,  introduced  Lady 
Cook  to  the  audience. 

LADY  COOK,  who  was  received  with  loud  applause,  began  by 
quoting  the  words  :  "  Know  ye  not  that  ye  are  the  temple  of  God,  and 
that  the  Spirit  of  God  dwelleth  in  you  ?  And  if  any  man  defile  the 
temple  of  God  him  shall  God  destroy,  for  the  temple  of  God  is  holy, 
which  temple  ye  are."  Lady  Cook  continued  :  When  our  blessed  Lord 
spoke  to  His  disciples  and  to  the  multitude  He  spoke  in  parables. 
When  He  told  them  the  parable  of  the  sowing  of  the  seed,  He  said  : 
"  Some  fell  by  the  wayside ;  some  fell  on  stony  ground  and  then 
withered  away ;  some  fell  among  thorns  and  thistles  and  was  choked, 
while  some  fell  on  good  ground  and  brought  forth  fruit,  some  an 
hundredfold,  some  sixtyfold,  some  thirtyfold.  Then  He  gave  unto  His 
disciples  another  parable,  saying:  "The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  like 
unto  a  man  which  sowed  seed  in  his  field,  but  while  men  slept  his 
enemy  came  and  sowed  tares  among  the  wheat.  And  when  the  multitude 
had  gone  away,  His  disciples  said  to  Him,  '  Master,  tell  us  what  you 
mean  by  the  parable  of  the  tares  and  the  wheat. '  He  answered,  '  He 
that  soweth  the  good  seed  is  the  Son  of  Man.  The  field  is  the  world. 
The  good  seed  are  the  children  of  the  kingdom,  but  the  tares  are  the 
children  of  the  wicked  one. ' ': 

I  am  going  to  give  you  a  lecture  to-night  in  regard  to  the  purity 
of  the  sexes,  with  special  reference  to  our  duty  to  our  children  and 


future  generations,   and  I   shall    talk    plainly    to    you,    and    not  in 
parables. 

It  was  said  not  very  long  ago  by  Lombroso,  the  great  criminologist, 
that  all  women  were  born  liars,  yet  I  ha-ve  not  heard  of  anyone  chal- 
lenging that  amazing  statement,  or  of  any  duels  being  fought.  Per- 
haps he  was  right.  The  environment  of  women  and  their  teaching 
for  thousands  of  years  concerning  the  most  sacred  duty  of  motherhood 
leads  them  to  tell  a  falsehood,  which  proves  that  he  is  correct.  A  little 
child  comes  running  up  to  its  mother  and  asks  :  "  Mother,  who  made 
me?"  The  mother's  past  teaching  that  she  was  born  in  sin  and  brought 
forth  in  iniquity,  and  that  to  have  procreated  and  brought  forth  a  child 
was  a  deadly  sin,  makes  her  seek  some  subterfuge  :  "  I  found  you  under 
a  gooseberry  bush,"  or  some  other  lie,  such  as  "  The  doctor  brought  you." 
The  child,  looking  into  the  mother's  face,  knows  that  she  is  telling 
an  untruth.  When  the  child's  character  is  forming  for  good  or  evil, 
instead  of  hearing  the  truth  from  a  good  mother,  he  goes  into  the 
streets  among  his  little  companions,  where  it  is  told  to  him  in  a  very 
different  manner  to  that  in  which  it  should  be  imparted  by  the 
mother. 

But  let  us.  look  at  the  other  side.  A  child  comes  up  to  its  mother 
and  says  :  "  Mother,  who  made  me  ?  "  "  Who  made  you,  darling  ? 
Your  parents  are  responsible  for  your  life.  Your  mother  carried  you 
under  her  heart  for  many  months  and  went  through  the  agony  of  death 
to  bring  you  into  the  world.  Now,  you  see,  my  darling,  why  mother 
loves  you  so,  and  why  she  would  give  her  life  to  save  yours.  And  for 
many  weary  days  and  nights  I  have  watched  over  you  to  bring  you  to 
your  present  -age.  Now  you  see  why  I  am  called  '  mother, '  for 
'  mother  '  means  trouble,  and  you  have  cost  me  much." 

Do  you  suppose  that  any  child,  after  hearing  that  from  a  pure, 
intelligent  mother,  could  ever  do  anything  to  bring  the  blush  of  shame 
to  her  face?  Do  you  think  he  could  ever  go  into  the  street  and  insult 
or  debauch  any  other  mother's  daughter?  Never,  for  his  character  is 
at  once  formed,  and  from  that  moment  he  learns  to  respect  his  mother, 
and  in  doing  so  he  respects  every  mother's  daughter.  (Applause.) 

I  am  a  little  perturbed  to-night,  because  I  had  prepared  a  special 
lecture  for  you;  but  on  learning  that  our  beloved  King  is  now,  per- 
haps, in  the  death  struggle,  it  has  grieved  me  very  much,  and  I  am 
sure  everyone  in  this  great  hall  to-night  shares  that  feeling  at  this 
inoment.  But  I  hope  you  will  bear  with  me  in  what  I  have  got  to  say, 


because  I  want  to  say  it.     You  deserve  it ;  you  want  it ;  you  need  it. 
(Applause.) 

Now  let  me  ask  what  has  been  the  cause  of  women  being  made 
liars.  What  has  been  taught  to  them  ?  Not  by  our  blessed  Saviour, 
the  best  friend  that  women  ever  had,  for  He  said  :  "  Suffer  little 
children  to  come  unto  Me,  for  of  such  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven." 
Then  again  :  "  Know  ye  not  that  the  kingdom  of  heaven  is  within 
you  ?  "  There  He  reminds  you  that  little  children  should  be  a  bless- 
ing, but  very  few  seem  to  realise  it.  If  they  did  they  would  not  live 
the  reckless  and  debauched  lives  they  do ;  they  would  not  go  into  the 
streets  and  fill  them  with  the  results  of  their  depravity  and 
licentiousness. 

What  has  caused  women  to  be  so  trammelled  that  they  are  like 
slaves?  The  following  choice  sentiments  are  taken  from  a  French 
priest's  manual,  the  "  Directorium  Sacerdotale,"  which  is  described  as 
"A  Guide  for  Priests  in  their  Public  and  Private  Life,"  by  Father 
F.  B.  Valery,  S.J.  It  is  the  fifth  edition,  and  was  published  in 
Dublin  in  1898  as  "thoroughly  revised."  I  do  not  like  to  quote  this, 
but  I  must  tell  you  why  women  have  been  treated  like  slaves  and 
worse  than  beasts  during  the  last  few  centuries. 

On  page  68,  under  the  heading  of  "Dangerous  Connections,"  one 
reads  : 

What  is  woman?  St.  Jerome  gives  the  answer:  "She  is  the  gate  by 
which  the  devil  enters,  the  road  that  leads  to  sin ;  she  is  what  the  sting  of 
the  scorpion  is."  And  in  another  place  he  says :  ""Woman  is  a  fire,  man 
the  tow,  and  the  devil  the  bellows."  St.  Maximus  writes  of  a  woman:  "She 
makes  shipwreck  of  men,  she  is  a  tyrant  who  leads  them  captive,  a  lioness 
who  holds  them  fast  in  her  embraces,  a  siren  decked  out  to  lead  them  to 
destruction,  a  malicious,  evil  beast."  And  St.  Anastasius  the  Sinaite  says : 
"She  is  a  viper  clothed  with  a  shining  skin,  a  comfort  to  the  demon,  a 
laboratory  of  devils,  a  flaming  furnace,  a  javelin  wherewith  the  heart  is 
pierced,  a  storm  by  which  houses  are  overthrown,  a  guide  leading  to  dark- 
ness, a  teacher  of  all  evil,  an  unbridled  tongue,  speaking  evil  of  the  saints." 
And  St.  Bonaventure  writes:  "A  fair  woman  tricked  out  with  her  finery  is 
a  keen  and  sharp-edged  sword  in  the  hands  of  the  devil  " 

During  the  height  of  the  power  of  the  Inquisition  the  victims  were 
generally  witches,  though  these  women  were  really  discoverers  in  the 
sphere  of  physical  science.  The  Archbishop  of  Treves  avenged  the 
Church  for  the  bad  weather  of  the  spring  of  1586  by  burning  nearly 
200  women  as  witches.  And  the  Inquisitors  boasted  at  the  end  of  the 
I5oth  year  of  their  existence  that  they  had  burned  30,000  women  for 


witchcraft.  How  can  you  expect  much  from  women  in  the  face  of 
such  treatment?  It  has  even  been  said  that  to  have  children  under 
any  circumstances  was  an  awful  sin.  and  that  woman  was  an  instru- 
ment of  Satan;  and  a  Galician  Bishop  declared  that  she  was  not 
human.  At  the  Council  of  Macon  the  Bishops  debated  whether  she 
had  a  soul.  How  can  you  expect  women  under  such  circumstances, 
when  such  teaching  has  been  going  on  for  centuries,  to  be  called  any- 
thing else  but  a  "  band  of  liars  "  ?  It  was  reported  in  a  London  even- 
ing newspaper  only  last  week  that  a  County  Court  Judge  said  :  "  When 
women  go  into  the  witness-box  they  will  swear  to  anything  up  to  the 
hilt."  ("  Shame.")  If  people  believe  this  of  us,  we  must  be  more  than 
liars ;  we  must  be  culprits  fit  for  prison.  It  is  about  time  we  called 
for  our  sons  to  give  us  back  our  good  name.  (Applause.)  Do  you 
realise  what  it  is  to  be  called  a  perjurer?  Yet  it  was  said  by  that 
Judge,  only  last  week  in  London,  that  "  she  would  swear  to  anything 
up  to  the  hilt."  ("  Shame.")  I  say  that  is  false.  (Applause.)  I 
am  sure  there  is  not  a  young  man  in  this  hall  to-night  but  loves  and 
worships  his  mother.  If  there  is  any  man  here  who  is  so  degraded 
and  so  degenerate  as  to  forget  the  sufferings  of  his  mother  at  his  birth, 
and  the  way  she  watched  over  him  and  took  care  of  him,  even  up  to 
manhood,  he  must  be  a  very  bad  man.  But  beyond  all  that,  he  must 
be  a  brute  who  can  see  his  mother  called  not  only  a  liar,  but  a  perjurer. 
(Applause.) 

What  are  we  women  working  for  ?  We  are  working  for  purity, 
for  a  better  understanding  between  the  sexes,  and,  generally,  to  bring 
about  a  better  condition  of  things.  (Applause.)  We  have  our 
churches  closed  from  week  to  week,  and  men  and  women  have  to  walk 
the  streets  because  they  have  nowhere  else  to  go.  They  have  no  com- 
panions, and  cannot  find  any  except  in  the  streets.  Our  beautiful 
young  boys,  coming  from  the  big  public  schools  and  the  Universities 
of  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  cannot  get  acquainted  with  girls  without 
being  introduced.  If  they  do  not  go  through  this  formality,  the  only 
people  they  come  in  contact  with  are  the  poor  pariahs  who  have 
nothing  to  hope  for,  no  matter  what  they  might  desire  to  do. 

What  I  want  to  do  is  to  open  the  churches  which  are  lying  idle 
al!  the  week,  and  have  rational  and  innocent  amusements  in  them  every 
night  and  every  day.  (Applause.)  There  they  might  have  such 
things  as  "spelling  bees,"  and  possibly  discussions  about  topics  of  the 
day.  I  do  not  say  they  should  neglect  history,  but  they  might  take 
up  such  frivolous  things  as  the  possible  invasion  of  England. 


(Laughter.)  They  might  discuss  such  a  simple  thing  as  another 
Mutiny  that  we  are  threatened  with  in  India,  or  even  the  financial 
condition  of  England  that  we  are  now  suffering  from.  (Renewed 
laughter.)  Young  men  and  young  women  have  got  to  live  in  this 
country,  and  they  have  to  live  for  years  and  years,  and  frequently  they 
have  to  suffer  owing  to  the  circumstances  which  surround  them.  Would 
it  not  be  better  for  these  young  people  to  meet  in  a  pure  and  holy  place 
and  talk  over  things  and  get  better  acquainted?  There  a  young  man 
might  get  to  know  some  beautiful  young  girl  to  whom  he  may  offer 
marriage,  and  eventually  she  might  become  his  wife.  (Applause.) 

Yes,  I  am  a  matchmaker,  and  I  believe  in  it.  (Applause  and 
laughter.)  Thither  they  could  go  in  all  purity,  and  meet  pure  girls 
in  the  presence  of  matrons  and  the  vicars  and  other  friends.  They 
could  have  delightful  amusements,  and  you  could  bring  these  boys 
from  the  street,  while  the  pure  girls  could  also  go  there  instead  of 
staying  at  home,  with  nowhere  to  go,  because  their  father  is  very  much 
interested  in  taking  care  of  some  other  man's  daughter.  Such  girls 
have  no  liberty,  and  no  one  to  look  after  them  except  their  poor  dear 
old  mother,  to  whom  the  chivalry  of  men  should  go  out.  (Applause.) 
She  has  borne  him  his  children,  and  worked  hard,  and  we  want  to 
revive  the  old  idea  of  chivalry  in  men.  (Applause.)  I  am  pleading 
and  working  earnestly  so  that  we  may  get  the  clergy  on  our  side.  We 
do  not  want  money.  All  I  want  you  to  do  is  to  go  home  and  use  a  little 
commonsense.  There  are  plenty  of  institutions  built  already — too  many 
— sucl>  as  our  insane  asylums  and  gaols,  that  are  peopled  with  the  off- 
spring of  ignorant  mothers,  and  of  debased,  debauched,  and  diseased 
fathers.  (Hear,  heai.)  They  are  every  one  filled,  but  we  have  got  to  the 
limit.  The  women  have  got  to  act,  and  they  can  stop  it  in  one  or  two 
decades  by  stopping  the  supply.  (Applause.) 

They  can  do  that  by  teaching  true  religion — the  religion  of  Christ. 
What  is  religion?  Let  us  take  it  as  it  is,  a  word  of  very  deep  mean- 
ing. It  is,  as  you  all  know,  "  religio  "  (which  means  "  back-bind,"  re- 
straint, or  repression).  That  is  the  meaning  that  the  dictionary  gives — 
"  restraint " — and  that  is  what  we  want  to  teach  our  young  men  to  use 
—restraint.  (Applause.)  It  is  false  to  say  that  prostitution  is  a 
necessary  evil.  Yet  it  is  plainly  said  and  believed  in  too;  but. 
instead  of  being  a  necessary  evil,  it  is  an  unnecessary  curse, 
for  it  produces  disease.  It  creates  our  degenerates,  and 
it  is  the  cause  of  over  a  million  children  dying  every 
year  before  they  reach  the  age  of  one  with  infantile 


10 

syphilis  and  other  causes.  We  are  all  talking  about  having  bigger 
families,  yet  many  children  never  get  beyond  the  age  of  youth.  What 
is  the  reason  of  that  ?  Because  we  are  not  taught  the  responsibility  of 
parenthood  and  how  to  take  care  of  them.  It  is  not  quantity  we  want. 
We  want  quality.  (Applause.)  Then  you  would  not  have  your 
streets  and  towns  in  the  condition  they  are  in  at  present,  filled  with 
degenerates  and  unemployed.  You  send  a  number  of  missionaries 
abroad  every  year.  You  had  better  send  your  missionaries  down  to 
those  streets  in  your  own  towns  where  the  people  breed  like  flies  and 
are  herded  like  beasts,  and  are  frequently  in  a  starving  condition.  It 
was  said  the  other  day  in  a  Sunday  paper  that  of  1,800  labouring 
men  who  went  to  get  work  on  the  new  Dreadnought,  after  they  had 
been  examined  only  two  were  found  to  be  fit.  In  another  paper  the 
editor  stated  that  a  lady  went  into  a  school  in  the  South  of  London, 
where  she  found  766  children.  They  were  examined,  and  not  one 
child  was  found  to  be  sound. 

Yet  we  are  ready  to  bring  these  children  into  the  world  without 
preparation  on  our  part,  and  without  their  consent ;  but  in  doing  so  we 
are  only  catering  to  depravity  and  licentiousness,  which  Christ  Himself 
denounced.  On  the  other  hand,  we  are  face  to  face  with  the  fact  that 
we  have  to  pay  about  ^15,000,000  every  year  that  our  paupers  and 
degenerates  may  be  taken  care  of,  and  ^70,000,000  to  keep  up 
institutions  for  people  that  are  not  fit  to  procreate,  not  fit  to  bring 
their  issue  into  the  world.  Yet  they  are,  in  many  cases,  not  to  blame, 
because  in  the  first  place  they  ought  not  to  have  been  made.  That  is 
a  very  strong  statement,  but  we  must  stop  the  supply,  or  we  shall  go 
down  like  other  Empires,  for  you  are  not  much  better  now  than  ancient 
Egypt,  and  even  portions  of  India,  and  Rome  itself.  Many  other 
Empires  have  fallen,  and  what  has  been  the  cause  ?  Their  licentious- 
ness and  their  disrespect  to  women.  When  Rome  began  to  disrespect 
women,  Rome  began  to  totter  to  her  downfall.  (Applause.) 

Many  people  are  saying  that  we  want  more  children,  and  others 
are  talking  of  what  is  called  "race  suicide."  The  first  say  we  must 
have  more  children,  and  that  it  is  a  good  thing  to  have  a  large  family. 
Well,  that  is  a  grand  idea,  but  how  does  it  work  out  when  men  go  to 
look  for  employment  ?  How  often  do  we  see  the  warning  :  "  Fathers 
of  families  need  not  apply  "  ?  They  must  not  look  for  certain  positions 
if  they  have  children,  and  often  cannot  rent  a  house  or  apartments  to 
shelter  their  little  ones  without  difficulty.  It  is  a  frequent  occurrence, 
when  taking  houses  or  flats  in  good  neighbourhoods,  to  find  that 


1 1 

children  and  dogs  are  objected  to.  It  is  difficult  to  get  any  shelter  for 
the  little  ones,  the  chief  objection  made  being  that  children  and  dogs 
are  not  allowed. 

I  remember  an  anecdote  of  an  ex- President,  who  is  against  race 
suicide  and  in  favour  of  large  families.  On  one  occasion,  when  travelling 
in  —  — ,  he  wished  to  take  rooms  for  his  family,  including  a  nurse 
and  infant,  but  the  landlord  objected  to  the  infant  being  brought  on 

account  of  the  other  guests.     "  I  will  have  these  rooms,"  said . 

"Not    with   the   infant,"    replied   the    landlord.     "All    right,"    said 

,  "  I  will  take  an  axe  and  chop  off  the  infant's  head,  but  I  take 

these  rooms  all  the  same." 

An  advertisement  issued  by  the  Kensington  and  Chelsea  School 
District  reads  : 

Respectable  married  couple,  to  act  as  father  and  mother  to  about  34  boys. 
Candidates  must  be  between  28  and  45  years  of  age.  Preference  will  be 
given  to  candidates  without  children,  or  those  whose  children  do  not  need 
to  reside  with  them. 

Another  advertisement  runs  : 

Candidates  for  the  post  of  Schoolkeeper  must  be  between  25  and  40  years 
of  age,  married,  and  with  not  more  than  one  child,  preference  being  given 
to  a  man  without  children. 

One  writer,  commenting  on  these  advertisements,  says  :  "  Yet  the 
L.C.C.  issues  these  regrettable  advertisements,  in  which  men  are  bribed 
to  deny  themselves  children — the  best  happiness  life  can  afford." 

In  other  words,  they  must  not  have  any  children  if  they  want  to 
get  a  place  under  the  School  Board. 

Other  advertisements  state  that  if  applicants  have  any  children 
they  must  put  them  out,  or  they  cannot  have  the  place.  (Laughter.) 
I  do  not  see,  therefore,  how  we  are  encouraging  large  families.  On 
the  other  hand,  there  are  people  who  say  we  have  more  children  than 
we  can  take  proper  care  of.  What  I  say  is — produce  a  proper  number 
of  children,  take  care  of  them,  and  bring  them  to  old  age.  (Applause.) 
That  is  what  is  necessary.  But  we  want  something  else.  The 
philosopher  said  :  "  Man,  know  thyself."  Yet  what  we  know  the  least 
about  is  our  own  body.  Lord  Rosebery  said  the  other  day  that  we 
must  have  a  healthy  body  in  order  to  have  a  healthy  mind.  But  you 
cannot  expect  people  to  have  brains  and  be  worthy  to  be  called  the 
children  of  God  if  their  bodies  are  full  of  disease. 

We  want  women  to  do  something  to  alter  these  things,  because  it  is 
we  women  who  suffer.  It  is  we  who  suffer,  and  not  so  much  the  men. 


12 

When  we  mothers  see  that  over  a  million  girls  die  every  four  years, 
as  one  of  the  effects  of  unbridled  lust,  so  that  our  young  men  may 
"sow  their  wild  oats,"  and  that  old  roues  may  run  the  gamut  with 
many  mistresses,  and  not  only  debauch  themselves,  but  teach  their 
sons  to  follow  in  their  tracks — then,  I  say,  it  is  time  that  we  rebelled. 
It  is  not  necessary  for  a  man  to  "sow  his  wild  oats."  Every  man  can 
be  as  continent  and  as  pure  as  any  woman.  (Applause.) 

Some  people  say  that  the  sexes  must  be  kept  separate.  Did  you 
ever  hear  that  it  was  usual  for  some  mothers  to  have  all  girls  and  others 
all  boys?  It  is  natural  for  boys  and  girls  to  grow  up  together,  and  to 
be  taught  together  by  their  mothers.  If  some  ruffian  were  to  insult  the 
sister  of  any  man  in  this  audience,  the  brother  would  throttle  him,  or 
he  ought  to  do  so.  (Applause.)  Well,  why  should  he  not  expect  some 
other  man  to  throttle  him  for  disgracing  and  deceiving  his  sister  ? 
Teach  purity,  and  make  it  of  the  first  importance,  and  we  shall  have 
just  as  many  pure  men  as  we  have  pure  girls  to-day. 

There  are  doctors  who  encourage  men  in  evil  ways,  and  I  have 
heard  a  simpering  society  lady  say  :  "  We  think  they  make  better  hus- 
bands when  they  have  sowed  a  few  of  their  wild  oats.'"'  (Laughter.) 
When  they  sow  a  few  wild  oats,  they  get  something  that  remains,  and 
that  they  will  transmit  to  the  beautiful  bride,  the  pure  girl  that  has 
been  recklessly  thrown  into  his  arms.  She  will  bring  forth  his 
diseased  children,  and  they  will  send  her  with  sorrow  and  grey  hairs 
to  the  grave,  for  it  is  true  :  "  As  ye  sow,  so  shall  ye  reap ;  and  the  sins 
of  the  father  shall  be  visited  upon  the  children  unto  the  third  and 
fourth  generation."  Men  can  be  continent,  and  many  of  them  are. 
Any  man  in  this  audience  to-night  would  welcome  an  opportunity  of 
going  into  a  church  or  some  place  of  that  kind  to  be  a  companion  of 
pure  girls  and  become  acquainted  with  them.  Perhaps  he  will  become 
engaged  to  one  of  them  for  a  year  or  two  without  even  thinking  of 
anything  wrong,  but  he  will  look  forward  and  say  :  "  Some  day  that 
pure,  good  girl  will  be  my  wife,  and  we  shall  have  children  to  bless  us 
in  our  old  age."  Every  such  man  in  this  audience  will  help  me  to 
bring  in  a  law  to  stop  this  terrible  "  sowing  of  wild  oats  "  by  our  young 
men,  and  put  an  end  to  doctors  teaching  them  that  that  is  what  they 
need  to  keep  them  in  good  condition.  (Applause.) 

I  have  read  in  history  where  women  were  with  many  men  on  board 
ship,  in  forts,  and  so  on,  for  weeks  and  months  at  a  time;  yet  they 
came  out  just  as  pure  as  when  they  went  in.  And  why  not?  If  a 
man  respects  his  mother,  you  can  appeal  to  his  better  nature,  and  he 


'3 

will  want  purity.  Men  would  prefer  to  have  a  dear  little  home  and 
wife  and  children  rather  than  walk  the  streets,  getting  drunk,  and 
going  home  reckless,  all  their  money  spent  and  their  health  ruined. 

As  I  told  you  at  the  beginning  of  my  lecture,  Lombroso  said  that 
"women  are  born  liars,"  but  the  blessed  Bible  says:  "All  men  are 
liars."  (Laughter  and  applause.)  I  think  they  are  not  only  liars, 
but  deceivers  of  the  worst  kind.  A  man  goes  to  the  altar  with  his 
bride  to  make  her  his  wife,  who  will  bear  his  children,  and  she  pro- 
mises to  "obey."  I  am  not  troubling  so  much  about  that  word, 
because  every  good  wife  wants  to  obey.  I  know  I  did.  It  is  not  the 
word  "  obey  "  I  object  to,  but  to  the  man  saying  :  "  With  all  my  worldly 
goods  I  thee  endow,"  when  he  does  not  intend  to  endow  her  with  a 
single  penny.  (Laughter.)  He  even  has  his  name  marked  on  the 
linen  and  the  spoons,  and  if  she  happens  to  save  a  few  pounds  which 
she  might  use  in  case  of  illness,  he  can  force  her  into  Court,  take  her 
little  savings  from  her,  and  spend  them.  Only  a  few  months  ago  a 
case  of  the  kind  was  brought  before  a  magistrate.  With  some  other 
women  I  tried  to  take  the  case  up,  but  it  was  no  use,  and  the  magis- 
trate, with  tears  in  his  eyes,  said  to  the  woman  :  "  I  must  make  you 
give  the  money  up  to  that  drunken  brute.  It  is  his  money.  You  have 
no  right  to  even  a  little  perquisite.  You  cannot  have  a  penny  of  it, 
even  though  you  saved  it,  and  did  not  spend  it  on  bonnets  and  such- 
like. You  must  give  it  to  him."  And  she  had  to  do  so.  We  want 
to  bring  about  a  change  in  such  a  condition  of  affairs.  A  woman  can- 
not call  anything  her  own,  and  she  is  not  encouraged  to  save.  She 
must  bear  everything.  It  has  been  so  even  from  the  time  of  the  Garden 
of  Eden.  When  Adam  and  Eve  were  there  together,  he  insulted  the 
Lord  for  giving  him  his  companion.  What  did  Adam  say  ?  "  It  was 
not  me ;  it  was  she."  (Laughter.)  Yet  they  were  together  all  the 
time.  But  what  did  the  woman  do  when  God  asked  her  what  she  had 
done  ?  She  stood  up  boldly  and  said  :  "  I  was  tempted  by  the  serpent 
and  I  did  eat,  but  I  gave  Adam  almost  all  of  it."  (Laughter.) 
Look  at  the  different  treatment  which  is  meted  out  to  people  nowadays. 
Take  the  case  of  Daisy  Lord,  or  any  other  dear  little  girl  that  has 
been  led  astray,  who,  in  her  agony,  and  with  the  stigma  upon  her, 
is  deserted  by  the  man  who  is  the  father  of  her  child.  In  the  end  she 
kills  the  child,  and  what  is  the  result?  She  is  condemned  to  be 
hanged,  or  is  sent  to  prison,  while  the  man  goes  scot  free.  (Cries  of 
"  Shame.") 

That  is  not  what  the  Lord  did.  He  heard  both  Adam  and  Eve, 
and  listened  to  their  little  stories,  and  then  He  took  both  of  them  to 


M 

the  gate  and  kicked,  or  thrust,  them  both  out.  (Laughter.)  And  the 
man  ought  to  be  thrust  out  of  all  society  as  well  as  the  woman. 
(Applause.)  Then  we  should  not  have  any  pariahs  walking  the  streets, 
and  there  would  be  no  men  "  sowing  their  wild  oats,"  and  looking  upon 
a  woman  as  fit  only  to  become  his  mistress.  No,  we  will  soon  stop 
that  when  we  get  the  vote.  (Applause.)  But  there  is  a  better  simile 
than  that.  Let  us  see  that  what  is  taught  to  our  children  is  nothing 
but  the  truth.  There  is  a  picture  of  it  in  nearly  every  church.  It  is 
that  of  the  woman  coming  from  the  rib.  Now,  it  may  be  that  there 
is  something  in  that  rib.  We  do  not  know.  Some  of  us  do  not  like  to 
be  called  "ribs."  We  object  to  it,  but  there  may  be  something  in  it, 
after  all.  The  Lord  God  did  not  take  the  woman  from  man's  feet,  to 
be  trampled  on ;  nor  from  his  hands,  to  show  that  she  was  his  servant ; 
neither  did  He  take  her  from  his  head,  to  indicate  that  she  was  to  be 
ruled  by  him.  No,  He  took  her  from  the  man's  side,  so  that  he  could 
work  side  by  side  with  her,  and  could  go  into  the  world  and  bring  up 
their  children  side  by  side  as  colleagues.  God  made  woman  from 
man's  rib  over  the  heart,  and  I  have  always  thought  that  the  heart 
adhered  to  the  rib,  and  that  is  what  made  woman  all  heart  and  man 
often  very  selfish.  (Laughter  and  applause). 

We  will  go  back  to  our  blessed  Saviour,  who  is  the  woman's  friend 
and  the  saviour  of  woman.  What  was  one  of  the  things  He  did  that 
caused  Him  to  be  taken  before  Pilate  ?  When  He  was  standing  looking 
at  the  disgrace  of  men  and  women,  and  reflecting  upon  their  depravity, 
He  saw  the  crowd  bringing  a  woman  to  Him,  and  they  said,  "  Master, 
this  woman  was  taken  in  adultery,  in  the  very  act."  The  Lord  took 
in  the  situation;  He  asked  for  the  man,  then  he  said  to  the  crowd, 
"  He  that  is  without  sin  let  him  cast  the  first  stone."  Then  He  turned 
to  write  on  the  sands  of  time,  and  turning  to  the  woman  again,  said  : 
"  Where  are  thy  accusers  ?  "  They  had  all  fled,  because  they  were  all 
guilty.  But  what  was  His  verdict  ?  "  Neither  do  I  condemn  thee, 
but  go  and  sin  no  more."  When  Jesus  gave  that  just  pronouncement 
He  knew  that  His  days  were  numbered,  and  so  they  were,, for  very 
soon  He  was  dragged  before  Pilate  and  condemned  to  be  crucified. 
The  mob  had  preferred  a  criminal  to  the  blessed  Lord.  Yet  Pilate 
was  a  good  man  and  tried  hard  not  to  give  up  Christ.  He  argues  with 
them,  and  then  his  wife  came  to  him  and  said  :  "  Have  nothing  to  do 
with  this  just  man,"  but  the  howling  mob  was  determined  to  crucify 
Him.  Of  course.  Pilate  wanted  their  votes  at  the  next  election  te 
keep  himself  in  power — (laughter  and  applause> — and  so  he  sold  his 
will  to  the  mob. 


15 

And  who  betrayed  Christ?  Who  denied  Him?  Who  crucified 
Him?  Men  !  But  who  followed  Him  to  Calvary,  weeping  and  wail- 
ing ?  W;:men  !  And  in  the  agony  of  death  He  turned  to  the  women 
and  said  :  "Daughters  of  Jerusalem,  weep  not  for  Me,  but  weep  for 
yourselves  and  your  children,  for  the  day  will  come  when  it  shall  be 
said  :  Blessed  are  the  barren,  and  the  wombs  that  never  bare,  and  the 
paps  that  never  gave  suck."  How  many  millions  of  women  since  that 
prophetic  utterance  have  prayed  for  the  mountains  to  fall  upon  them, 
and  the  hills  to  cover  them  up?  And  what  were  His  last  words  on  the 
Cross?  "Woman,  behold  thy  son."  And  we  are  going  to  behold 
them,  and  not  only  that,  we  are  going  to  teach  them  the  true  religion 
of  Christ.  We  are  going  to  make  our  boys  as  good  and  as  pure  as  our 
girls.  We  are  going  to  make  them  respect  every. woman,  and  then  we 
shall  not  be  told  that  prostitution  is  a  necessary  evil.  (Applause.) 

Now  a  word  about  our  blessed  Saviour.  There  is  not  a  soul  in  this 
house  but  what  loves  that  pure  Man,  that  blessed  Christ.  Who  was  it 
that  He  appeared  to  first  after  the  Resurrection?  Mary  Magdalene, 
because  He  knew  she  needed  His  sympathy  and  love.  No  wonder 
the  women  washed  His  feet  with  their  tears  and  wiped  them  with  the 
hair  of  their  head. 

Many  men  have  said  :  "  We  do  not  want  to  be  under  petticoat 
government."  Why,  you  are  under  petticoat  government  from  the 
very  moment  you  are  born,  and  your  mother  would  never  leave  you 
until  you  are  grey-haired.  She  would  follow  you  to  prison  and  give 
you  her  life.  (Applause.)  Do  not  be  afraid  of  "petticoat"  govern- 
ment. We  do  not  want  to  take  it  from  you.  We  only  want  to  put 
some  decent  men  into  Parliament  who  will  respect  women  because  they 
have  respected  their  mothers.  We  do  not  wish  to  go  there  ourselves. 
We  will  take  care  of  our  babies ;  only  we  want  to  have  as  much  to  say- 
about  our  children  and  what  we  are  going  to  do  as  the  men  have. 
(Applause.) 

Yet  over  a  million  children  die  every  year  before  reaching  the  age 
of  twelve  months.  They  ought  never  to  come  into  the  world  at  all. 
We  want  to  bring  forth  pure  and  healthy  children,  and  then  we  shall 
not  have  to  make  war  to  kill  off  the  mob  of  the  unfit.  If  they  only- 
killed  off  the  unfit  we  would  not  mind,  but  when  you  have  a  war  you 
take  the  flower  of  our  flock.  You  take  our  best  and  healthiest  children, 
while  you  leave  the  degenerates  and  the  paupers  to  breed,  and  we  have 
to  pay  the  taxes  for  their  keep.  It  is  only  the  best  men  that  are  made  to 
go  to  war  in  order  that  certain  soldiers  may  become  future  generals, 


1 6 

and  that  the  other  people  may  get  a  little  more  land.  You  had  better 
take  care  of  what  land  you  have  got.  You  had  better  see  what  you 
are  about  to  lose  in  India,  with  other  nations  looking  on  ready  to  take 
it.  We  are  always  neglecting  India.  We  do  not  know  the  value  of  our 
great  Indian  Empire.  The  Continental  Powers  know  the  value  of 
India.  None  of  them  are  encroaching  towards  Canada  or  Australia. 
The  activities  of  the  three  great  Continental  Powers  may  be  seen  on 
the  boundaries  of  our  Indian  Empire — France  on  the  Eastern  border, 
Russia  on  the  North- West,  and  Germany  near  the  Persian  Gulf.  Look 
at  the  condition  you  are  in  now.  That  is  why  we  are  trying  to  get  you 
to  hear  us.  You  need  your  mothers.  You  need  the  women  to  give  you 
advice  how  to  carry  on  this  Government,  how  to  keep  your  possessions, 
and  how  to  prevent  millions  of  people  from  going  to  rack  and  ruin. 

What  kind  of  people  have  you  got  about  you?  Take  the  after- 
dinner  table  talk.  I  should  not  care  to  be  a  man.  It  is  the  whispered 
word  :  "  Yes — you  know — she — he  keeps  house — he  had  that  done  for 
her — you  know  he  drinks  like  a  fish."  That  is  the  kind  of  man  there 
is  about.  They  have  not  got  pure  hearts.  They  do  not  respect  their 
wives  or  mothers,  and  yet  we  are  compelled  to  go  to  them  and  ask 
them  to  do  us  justice  !  We  shall  never  get  it  at  this  rate,  but  we  are 
going  to  do  the  next  best  thing,  and  that  is  to  appeal  to  the  people 
and  to  our  sons  who  are  growing  up,  and  then  we  shall  get  on.  This 
has  been  going  on  for  years,  and  we  are  almost  in  another  generation, 
but  we  shall  win  very  soon,  because  there  are  thousands  of  men  who 
know  that  their  mothers  are  their  best  friends,  and  they  want  women 
to  come  into  power.  (Applause.) 

It  is  only  blase  men  who  want  things  to  go  on  as  they  are.  They 
are  like  hardened  criminals.  We  feel  very  sorry  for  these  men,  but 
let  them  die  out.  We  do  not  intend  to  have  any  more  of  them  coming 
forward.  We  intend  to  bring  our  boys  up  to  be  pure  young  men  who 
will  respect  women  and  children.  (Applause.)  It  is  said  sometimes 
that  women  have  no  bravery.  What  a  foolish  saying  !  Look  at  the 
Spartan  women.  It  is  said  of  the  Spartan  wives  and  mothers  that  they 
harnessed  their  sons  and  husbands  for  battle  with  every  incitement  to 
valour,  and,  binding  their  bucklers  on  their  arms,  were  wont  to  say  : 
"  Return  either  with  your  shield  or  upon  it."  A  mother  preferred  her 
child's  death  to  his  dishonour.  When  a  foreign  lady  remarked  tc 
Gorgo,  the  wife  of  Leonidas,  "  The  Spartan  women  alone  rule  the 
men,"  Gorgo  replied  :  "  The  Spartan  women  alone  bring  forth  men." 

Just  in  the  same  way  mothers  should  prepare  their  daughters  for 
the  battle  of  life,  and  arm  them  against  the  enemies  of  womanly  purity, 


preferring  all  things  to  dishonour.  But  they  cannot  do  this  unless  they 
themselves  are  pure.  The  sons  of  Sparta  were  heroes  because  their 
mothers  were  patriotic  heroines. 

We  want  still  to  be  mothers,  and  to  propagate  the  race,  but  we  do 
not  want  to  go  on  sapping  the  nation  and  bringing  it  to  the  verge  of 
destruction  and  revolution  like  other  nations.  We  are  very  near  it 
now,  and  the  only  salvation  for  you  is  to  get  us  women  to  help  you  and 
give  you  our  advice.  We  must  advise  you  boys  and  girls  and  husbands, 
and  we  are  going  to  study  politics  and  understand  these  things.  Why  ? 
Because  we  have  the  greatest  part  of  the  suffering  to  bear.  It  is  we 
who  have  to  go  for  many  weary  months  bearing  the  child.  It  rests 
with  us  whether  the  child  is  marked  for  good  or  evil.  It  is  the  duty  of 
the  mother  to  understand  herself  during  that  critical  time  ;  every  doctor 
knows  that.  We  ought  not  to  have  to  go  round  and  make  ourselves 
thieves,  and  "go  through"  our  husbands'  pockets  at  night  in  order  to 
get  a  'bus  fare.  We  ought  not  to  be  kept  down  without  any  money. 
It  ought  to  be  considered  that  the  wife  is  his  colleague,  and  in  the 
same  position  as  her  husband.  (Applause.) 

Look  what  Queen  Boadicea  did  when  Britain  was  invaded.  She 
called  all  her  subjects  together  and  said  :  "  Men  and  women,  follow  me 
to  battle  " ;  and  she  attached  scythes  to  her  chariot  and  drove  through 
the  enemy,  and  mowed  them  down  like  grass.  And  who  was  greater 
and  brought  about  better  conditions  than  your  Queen  Bess  ?  She  was 
the  greatest  diplomatist  in  the  world.  She  brought  in  and  looked 
after  the  Protestant  religion,  and  all  without  shedding  a  drop  of  blood. 
We  all  admit  that  Queen  Elizabeth  was  great,  and  she  was  a  virgin 
Queen  too.  I  was  going  on  to  say  something  as  to  what  we  want  to 
have  done  in  England,  and  what  our  duty  is,  but  I  cannot  do  it  without 
bringing  in  the  revered  Queen  Victoria.  Now  that  her  beloved  son  is 
passing  away,  I  shall  abridge  what  I  had  to  say  on  that.  I  was  going 
to  ask  for  certain  laws  to  be  modified  and  certain  things  to  be  allowed, 
but  we  shall  have  to  wait  awhile  now. 

I  shall  never  speak  again  perhaps.  I  am  too  old  and  too  feeble  to 
continue  this  work,  but  if  I  have  instilled  a  little  commonsense  and 
truth  into  the  young  women  here,  so  that  they  can  go  and  teach  the 
children  properly  the  beginning  of  life,  I  shall  not  have  toiled  in 
vain.  (Applause.)  I  am  glad  to  have  this  opportunity  of  talking  to 
you  once  more.  I  want  to  say  that  the  one  thing  I  have  been  striving 
for  during  many  years  is  purity.  We  want  purity  and  knowledge 
instead  of  vice  and  ignorance.  I  want  you  to  understand  yourselves. 


University  of  California 

SOUTHERN  REGIONAL  LIBRARY  FACILITY 

Return  this  material  to  the  library 

from  which  it  was  borrowed. 


-  L'iv 

ht,  thou 

canst 

plause.) 

If  w, 

ht  bring 

in  th 

ence  to- 

night 

>f  years, 

and  • 

•e  given 

fifty 

ne  little 

resul 

le  great 

work 

ill  have 

their 

got  the 

u'omt 

winning. 

(App 

. 

ley  will 

not  s 

millions 

read; 

earnest. 

and 

"k   say  : 

"  Wh 

woman 

who 

rves  our 

ideal 

I  have 

long 

A 

e  died  : 

"les 

also  will 

bear 

n  deter- 

mini) 

nent  by 

whic 

ndantly 

as  w< 

1 

rom  his 

seat 

He  has 

assernu    nu   IIUUHIUJ    tu    a.  mm    i 

and  we  know  that  on  more  than  one  occasion  he  not  only  spoke,  but 
voted  for  such  a  measure  as  that  indicated,  and  more  recently  he  said 
in  the  House  of  Commons  : 

We  have  been  told  that  to  encourage  women  to  take  an  active  part  in 
politics  is  degrading  to  the  sex.  I  should  think  myself  grossly  inconsistent 
and  most  ungrateful  if  I  supported  that  argument  in  this  House,  for  I  have 
myself  urged  the  women  of  this  country  to  take  a  share  in  politics.  Aft:r 
that,  to  come  to  the  House  and  say  I  have  asked  these  women  to  do  that 
which  degrades  them  appears  to  me  to  be  most  absurd  and  inconsistent. 

Well,  then  we  have  another  great  man  who  said  that  he  would 
never  give  women  the  vote,  but  that  women  had  to  work  out  their  own 
salvation.  That  is  just  what  we  have  begun  to  do,  and  that  is  what 


000  064  446     8 


we  are  going  to  continue  to  do  until  we  really  reach  the  goal  that  we 
have  been  seeking.  (Applause.)  If  our  professors  at  Oxford  and 
Cambridge,  and  in  all  our  different  public  schools,  will  not  teach  the 
children  what  they  ought  to  know,  then  we  shall  tell  them  that  the 
women  must  go  in  and  teach  them.  (Applause.)  Our  boys  should  be 
taught  to  refrain  from  secret  practices,  and  not  come  out  of  school 
degraded  little  scamps.  Their  bodies  are  the  temples  of  God,  and  if 
when  a  boy  grows  up  to  be  a  man  he  wants  to  ask  any  pure  girl  to  be 
his  wife,  he  should  approach  her  with  as  pure  a  character  as  he  expects 
his  future  wife  to  have.  What  we  want  to  ensure  is  that  when  a  young 
man  comes  and  asks  a  mother  for  her  daughter  in  marriage,  the  mother 
shall  be  able  to  say  to  him  :  "  Have  you  as  clean  a  record  as  you  expect 
my  daughter  to  have?  If  not,  go  and  marry  among  the  people  you 
have  been  debauching  and  living  with,  sowing  your  wild  oats.  I 
would  rather  see  my  child  dead  than  she  should  bring  forth  disease 
and  corruption."  That  is  what  we  want  to  teach.  If  any  man  wants 
to  make  some  beautiful  girl  his  wife  he  must  lead  as  pure  a  life  as  he 
expects  that  girl  to  lead.  If  he  does  not,  he  cannot  have  her.  Then 
mothers  will  not  be  so  eager  to  get  rid  of  their  children,  because,  even 
if  they  do  not  get  married,  she  will  have  brought  them  up  in  such  a 
way  that  they  will  be  able  to  take  care  of  themselves.  Every  kind  of 
labour  is  honourable,  except  that  which  we  see  in  the  streets,  and 
women  would  rather  do  honourable  work  than  be  compelled  to  do  that. 
In  the  blessed  Bible  we  read  :  "  I  saw  the  tree  of  life  planted  by  a  pure 
river  of  water,  and  the  leaves  were  for  the  healing  of  the  nations."  If 
you  have  a  pure  river  of  life  you  will  bring  forth  children  that  will  be 
for  the  healing  of  the  nation.  But  I  ask  you  to  struggle.  I  ask  you 
in  all  vicissitudes  to  maintain  hope  and  resolution.  I  ask  you  to  swear 
that  you  will  win.  I  ask  this  of  you  not  only  because  I  know  that 
unnumbered  calamities  and  terrible  degradations  will  be  the  penalty  if 
you  fail  in  this  great  ordeal,  but  also  because  I  want  you  to  relieve 
the  fame  of  England  from  a  black  and  irreparable  disgrace.  (Loud 
applause.) 

A  vote  of  thanks  having  been  accorded  to  the  lecturer  amidst  gieat 
applause,  Lady  Cook,  with  pathetic  simplicity,  said  :  God  bless 
women  !  God  bless  mothers,  that  they  may  teach  their  children 
purity,  that  they  may  bring  forth  better  boys  to  grow  up  and  be 
blessings  to  their  parents  ! 


j%  This  Lecture  was  specially  delivered  to  an  KNGLISH  audience.  During  1911 
a  similar  Lecture,  on  the  Laws  and  Morals  of  the  United.  Staffs,  will  be  givtn  in 
Am<ric<i,  from  Mail*  ti  California. 


IN  PREPARATION. 


100  pp.,  Illustrated.      Price  Sixpence  Net,  post  free,  8d. 


A 


APHICAI.  SKETCH 
F  LADY  LOOK: 

(nee  TENNESSEE  CLAFMN) 

IER  WITH    A    SELECTION    FROM    HER 
ESSAYS. 

.  LONDON  <HAYMAN,    CHRISTY,    &    LILLY,    LTD., 
13-117,  FARRINGDON  ROAD,  E.G. 

Applications  for  copies  of  this  Work,  and  also  for  the  Lectuie,  may  \>e  addressed  to  Messrs 
HAVMAK,  CHRISTY,  &  LILLY,  LTD.,  113-117,  Farringdon  Road,  K.C.  The  Lecture  will  be  seni 
free  by  post  for  three  half-pence;  12  Copies  will  be  sent  post  free  for  1/3;  6  Copies,  8d 
Remit*ams<sJmust  accompany  applications  for  Copies  of  the  Lecture. 


'SS. 


.191 


To  Messrs 

Booksellers, 


Please    supply    me,    when    the    boo/^   is    issued,    with 

cop. of:«A      BIOGRAPHICAL 

SKETCH  OF  LADY  COOK"  -  (published  by  Hayman, 
Christy,  &  Lilly,  Ltd.,  113-117,  Farringdon  Road, 
London,  E.G.,  price  Sixpence  net). 

Tours  truly, 
(Signed) 


,  CHRISTY  &  LILLY,  LTD.,  LONDON,  E.G. 


University 
Southei 
Librai 


